Hi Andreas
Good questions, I'll try to write up some more docs and a longer reply over the
next couple of days.
Many thanks,
Jeremy
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> On 3 Jun 2014, at 16:16, Andreas Hahn wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am more or less new to TW and I may not have a good overview or a good
> understanding, but there is something I have been wondering about and maybe
> your answers will help me to deepen my understanding of TW.
>
> From what I can tell widgets are a way to enhance WikiText with the goal of
> displaying content that it would not normally be able to display by default.
> A good example would be the list widget. Many of these widgets also provide a
> little bit of functionality that would otherwise not exist. Examples here are
> the widgets that provide the typical HTML-Form elements like a button, a
> checkbox/radiobox, textareas, etc..
>
> But I notice that an increasing number of widgets just exist to do a purely
> functional task which mostly does not involve rendering things or doing
> something with the child elements of that widget. And most of these are not
> designed to play exceptionally well together.
>
> For example the checkbox widget works on tags, the edit widget on fields. To
> use them for something else, you usually have to do something extra, like
> transcluding the field or checking for tags.
> Also widgets make use of different concepts, the $mangletags widget from
> Matabele follows his stacking mechanism where high-level functionality is
> archieved by wrapping AROUND a source element, which propagates the target UP
> the stack. Other widgets like the core set widgets propagate variables DOWN
> the stack and are used to provide the necessary parameters for the high-level
> functionality INSIDE the stack. Some use messages as parameters, others
> solely rely on their attributes as input.
>
> Now my question: Is there a guideline or a core concept which is meant to
> ensure that widgets work well together ? Are widgets even supposed to work
> together ? (How will they do this in the future ?) And finally: what was the
> idea/purpose behind widgets when TW was created ?
>
> I would love a short explanation of the more or less theoretical background
> and concepts of this part of TW.
>
> Thanks
> /Andreas
>
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